Actual Lines From Tech Recruiter Emails
Inspired by CJ Quines’s original blog post!
- “Tomer?” (this was the whole email)
- “Transform an unsexy industry!”
- “I totally get it 😂 these emails are super annoying, right?”
- “How are you?!”
- “Another technical recruiter here, trying to gas you and see if you’d like to discuss. Annoyed, non-plussed, or charmed? Lmk for research purposes…”
- “We also offer a referral bonus – we’ll treat you to any restaurant of your choice if you refer a person that we hire.”
- “Exactly the muscle and firepower we need! 🔥”
- “The engineering team remains embryonic.”
- “Your FP iterator library (lfi) shows the design taste we need for shopping AI that feels human.”
- “Me again 🙂”
- “I came across your details via some of your impressive open source projects like eslint-config.”
- “A career is like a frog in boiling water.”
- “Quick question: What’s the difference between debugging code and my follow-up game? One actually gets results 😅”